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Federico de Vinciolo

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Designed by Federic de Vinciolo, published by Jean Le Clerc, Paris, bound by Chambolle-Duru, French, 19th century. Title page for Part II of the book. Title is printed in black and is framed inside of a rectangle at the center of the page. Central rectangle is surrounded by a border decorated with a coat of arms at the top center that is flanked on either side by an ornamented piece of textile held up by a winged putto. At the bottom of the left and right sides of the border are 2 women who sew textile designs.

Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Department’s vast collection of works on paper comprises approximately 21,000 drawings, 1.2 million prints, and 12,000 illustrated books created in Europe and the Americas from about 1400 to the present day. Since its foundation in 1916, the Department has been committed to collecting a wide range of works on paper, which includes both pieces that are incredibly rare and lauded for their aesthetic appeal, as well as material that is more popular, functional, and ephemeral. The broad scope of the department’s collecting encourages questions of connoisseurship as well as those pertaining to function and context, and demonstrates the vital role that prints, drawings, and illustrated books have played throughout history.

Metropolitan Museum of Art